It is well-known that grammaticalization involves category change. The development of a lexical element into a grammatical marker more specifically entails a category shift from an open lexical class (e.g. full verbs) to a closed grammatical class (e.g. auxiliary verbs). This article claims that… read more
This article investigates lexical expansion in the HAVE and BE perfect in Dutch. It is known from previous research that early perfects show more lexical restrictions than their modern counterparts. The aim of this article is to uncover how perfects change their collocational preferences over time. read more
This paper presents a contrastive study of the human impersonal pronouns man in Swedish and men in Dutch. Both impersonal pronouns are etymologically derived from man ‘human being’ and they more or less have the same meaning. However, there are important differences in the usage of these pronouns.… read more
This paper aims to examine the existence of silence in language acquisition for learners in a multilingual environment using a survey conducted among the Dutch population in Sweden. The objective of the study was to investigate the extent to which children learning Dutch from their parents in a… read more